Viverridae Gray, 1821

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 340

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Family Viverridae Gray, 1821 View in CoL . London Med. Repos., 1821:301.

COMMENTS: Type genus: Viverra Linnaeus, 1758 , by original designation ( Melville and Smith, 1987). Does not include subfamilies Herpestinae Bonaparte, 1845 , or Galidiinae Gray, 1865 ; see Pocock (1916c, 1919), Gregory and Hellman (1939), Wurster and Benirschke (1968), Thenius (1972), Radinsky (1975), Hunt (1987), Flynn et al. (1988), and Wozencraft (1989a, b).